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Title: Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924 Kemper, General William Harrison, 1839-
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Chicago and New York : The American historical society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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e held by the Coroners. These elections were duly held; Clark County having been createdon Februaiy 3, 1801, from Knox County, and including all of the Terri-tory lying east of Blue River and south of the east fork of White River.The delegates to the convention were leading men of their counties, buttheir names narrowly escaped obli\don. Fortunately Governor Reynoldspreserved the record as to Illinois in his Pioneer History, in the sketchesof Pierre Menard, Robert Reynolds and Robert Morrison, of RandolphCounty, and Jean Francois Perrey, Shadrach Bond and Ma.ior JohnMoredock, of St. Clair County, who were the delegates from those twocounties. As to Knox County, all record was lost, until 1886, when, inmoving some papers in the oifice of the Auditor of State, the originalpoll list was found. The Auditor. James H. Rice, did not know what itwas, and sent it to Henry Cauthorn, of Vincennes, as an historical localrelic. ^Ir. Cauthorn likewise had never heard of this convention, but he T1E7
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Mississippi Valley in 1801 INDIANA AND INDIANANS 235 wrote an article about the poll list for the Vincennes Sun, which wasluckily reprinted in the Indianapolis Sentinel of January 13, 1886, andwhich gives the result of the election in the choice of Gen. Harrison, LukeDecker, Francis Vigo, and William Prince. I at once wrote to )Mr.Cauthorn, and was informed that the paper had been put on display inthe office of the Vincennes Sun, and had been carried away by some un-known person. The names of the delegates from Clark County havenever been found, but a guess has been ventured that they were DavisFloyd and one of the Beggs brothers. The only thing certainly knownabout them was that they opposed the introduction of slavery. Theconvention organized by electing Harrison president and John RiceJones secretary. Jones was a talented Welsh lawyer, who had been inthe Territory since Clarks expedition of 1785. On December 28 theconvention agreed on its memorial, which asked for the suspension of

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